Life folds you into a paper crane; Yet you feel like an alligator, Taste sweet as honey, Look like Garbo, Sound like a Stradivarius, Smell like mangled marigolds Smooth as glass. The tinkle of fresh bread, Leonardo and Paris remind you that alligators can’t be…

LIFE AFTER 65 (a haiku)   WOW! I’m 65 Wrinkled and gray, aches and pains Thankful for it all!

The rocks of longing in my heart build cairns that balance serendipitously on dunes built of sugar like the sweet and sticky buns of my youth sounds of sucking my fingertips before dipping them in the sands of the Ocean City beach where I lie…

He sits under lime green leaves , a sentry covered in armor. I expect him to protect me with his cast iron body and patinated shell. His cold hard self still, not able to move in the shade. Scented  lilac permeates the leeway. Crickets call…

Clouds are like balls of cotton but are actually made of linen. Ollie really likes to look at the clouds and he will fly among them some day. Mike, the border collie, told Ollie y’all goin’ to be swimin’ with the fish. This would be…

There I sit in the middle of the room remember Montauk two weeks ago. Quiet and empty like this room just me, my towel, sunscreen, and my chair. Then company arrived of an unexpected kind. Seeing water shooting up from the wakes spurts of ocean…

Dearheart I was young and we were riding bicycles across Iceland, ashen land, young men following me everywhere looking at brown eyes because they’d never spoken anyone’s brown I understand that just by looking delightfully cold at blue heartbeats crystallized stillness roped off places you…

I look at the sky, full of sunflowers A new day, to see the beautiful colors Smell of lavender, oh life is so different today I still remember our last kiss in a farm Next to a river, far from people that Are lost in…

Target Fish in a tank, suspended in murky depths, four plastic walls separating are an illusion, as sharks circle and salivate, just beyond sight. Cat in a box, canary in a cage, rat in a maze, all secure and safe, as safe as they wish…

Christmas Time: As the season approaches I close my eyes, smiling as I sip my tea thinking back to times past The weather was picture perfect for December- Snow covering everything with a layer of sleepy cotton but look! There are some kids sledding down…